The
Policy
Library tab displays the base settings, default policy, and other
best practice policies that
vRealize
Operations Manager includes. You can use the library policies to create your
own policies. The policy library includes all of the configurable settings for
the policy elements, such as workload, anomaly, faults, capacity and time
remaining, stress, reclaimable capacity, density, usable capacity, and time.

How the Policy
Library Works

Use the options on the
Policy
Library tab to create your own policy from an existing policy, or
to override the settings from an existing policy so that you can apply the new
settings to groups of objects. You can also import and export a policy.

To display the details for a
selected policy, click the split bar to expand the pane. The Details and
Related Items tabs and options for the policy appear in the lower pane. On the
Related Items tab, you can also apply the selected policy to object groups.

When you add or edit a policy,
you access the policy workspace where you select the base policies and override
the settings for analysis, metrics, properties, alert definitions, and symptom
definitions. In this workspace, you can also apply the policy to object groups.
To update the policy association with an object group, the role assigned to
your user account must have the Manage Association permission enabled for
policy management.

Where You Manage the
Policy Library

To manage the policy library,
click
Administration and
click
Policies. The
Policy
Library tab appears and lists the policies available to use for
your environment.

Policy Library Tab
Options

Option

Description

Toolbar

Use the toolbar
selections to take action in the policy library.

■

Add New Policy.
Create a policy from an existing policy.

■

Edit Selected
Policy. Customize the policy so that you can override settings for
vRealize
Operations Manager to analyze and report data about the associated objects.

■

Set Default Policy. You can
set any policy to be the default policy, which applies the settings in that
policy to all objects that do not have a policy applied. When you set a policy
to be the default policy, the priority is set to
D, which gives that policy the highest priority.

■

Import Policy and
Export Policy. You can import or export a policy in XML format. To import or
export a policy, the role assigned to your user account must have the Import or
Export permissions enabled for policy management.

■

Delete Selected
Policy. Remove a policy from the list.

Policy Library Tab
data grid

vRealize
Operations Manager displays the high-level details for the
policies.

■

Name. Name of the policy as it
appears in the Add or Edit Monitoring Policy wizard, and in areas where the
policy applies to objects, such as in Custom Groups.

■

Description. Meaningful
description of the policy, such as which policy is inherited, and any specific
information users need to understand the relationship of the policy to one or
more groups of objects.

■

Last Modified. Date and time
that the policy was last modified.

■

Modified By. User who last
modified the policy settings.

Policy Library Tab
> Details Tab

The Details tab displays the
name and description of the policy from which the settings are inherited, the
policy priority, who last modified the policy, and the number of object groups
associated with the policy. From the Details tab, you can view the settings
that are locally defined in your policy, and the complete group of settings
that include both customized settings and the settings inherited from the base
policies selected when the policy was created.

■

Locally Defined Settings.
Displays the locally changed policy element settings for each object type in
the policy. For example, if you changed the Memory Demand settings in the
Cluster Compute Object Stress policy element, you can see the update to your
local policy in the list of locally defined settings.

■

Complete Settings
Including Inherited. Displays all of the policy element settings for each
object type in the policy, including locally changed settings and settings that
are inherited. A summary of the enabled and disabled alert definitions, symptom
definitions, and attributes appear indicate the number of changes in the
policy. The policy element settings include badge score symptom thresholds, and
indicate changes made to the Workload, Anomaly, Fault, Capacity and Time
Remaining, Stress, Reclaimable Capacity, Density, Usable Capacity, and Time
settings. For example, if you changed the Cluster Compute Object Usable
Capacity policy element settings, you can see the updates to your local policy
in the complete list of settings, and the high availability configuration
setting. If you have various adapters installed, such as the
vRealize
Configuration Manager Adapter, you will also see specific policy elements for
the adapter. For example, for
vRealize
Configuration Manager you will see the Compliance policy element setting and
badge score symptom threshold.

Related ObjectsTab

Summarizes the related groups
and objects, and details about the selected object group and objects.

■

Groups. Displays the
groups of objects associated with the selected active policy, and provides
options to add and release an association.

■

Add Association. Opens
the Apply the policy to groups dialog box where you select object groups to
associate with the selected policy.

■

Release Association.
Opens a confirmation dialog box to confirm the release of the object group that
is associated with the selected policy.

■

Data grid. Displays
the groups assigned to this policy, the object types associated with the group,
and the number of objects in the group.

■

Details for the
selected object group. Displays the object group name, type, and number of
members associated with the selected policy, and the type of association with
the policy. An object group can have a direct association with a policy, and
inherited policy associations based on the base policies that you selected when
you created a local policy. For example, if the Base Settings policy appears in
the list, with an inherited association, the Base Settings policy was included
in the base policies selected when this policy was created.

■

Affected Objects. Displays
the names of the objects in your environment, their object types, and
associated adapters. When a parent group exists for an object, it appears in
this data grid.